The Counterfeit Note is a painting that serves as an interesting visual document humanizing the problem of counterfeit money in the mid-19th century.

As Union forces approached New Orleans in April 1862, commerce continued, though cotton bales were burned and money substitutes circulated.

Planned to coincide with the introduction of its new £5 note, the Bank of England Museum opened its refurbished Banknote Gallery on Sept. 7.

The week of Coinex, the international coin show in London, will include a 790-lot auction of world paper money by Dix Noonan Webb on Oct. 3.

Indonesia’s new currency being issued later this year will bear the portraits of 12 Indonesians who have been officially designated “National Heroes.”

The National Bank of Ukraine issued a 20-hryvnia bank note on Sept. 1 in honor of the 160th anniversary of the birth of writer and poet Ivan Franko.

The fall auction season got off to a strong start at the Sept. 8 Heritage Currency sale in Long Beach, Calif.

Forty years ago, an unprecedented flood of Federal Reserve note errors began pouring into circulation. How did that happen?

Sheets of Polish 2,000-zloty bank notes that were printed for use in occupied NATO nations in case of a Soviet invasion will go on exhibit in 2017.

Innovia Films operates a plant in Wigton in England where polymer substrate is produced for Bank of England notes, and the notes of several other nations.

Engraver and inventor Waterman L. Ormsby always tended to be close by when it came time to produce notes for customers that “weren’t quite right.”

Heavily worn Series 1880 $1 United States note realized $15,000 in a 2014 auction because of its link to a historic event.

The government of Gibraltar will soon issue a polymer £100 bank note to commemorate, a year after the fact, the 100th birthday of Sir Joshua Hassan.